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Sam joins the Rebel forces; Tim is left alone to drive the cart home from Verplancks; the British attack Redding; Tim realizes that Sam is fighting for the wrong reasons
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The first battle fought in the american revolution
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Sam would get hung if he did not bring a weapon so he stole fathers brown bess and told tim to keep his mouth shut.
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The british are walking around redding and are going to houses demanding for weapons and stealing food from the people, they went to fathers tavern and had a sword to fatherrs face .
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Tim and father head to verplanks point to sell there cattle (beef) to get money for supplies for the tavern and to improve the tavern
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The cowboys capture father and tim goes and looks for him but cant seem to find him and follows the footsteps and doesnt find him so he goes and heads home and tells mother the news
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father is captured by the cowboys and was put on a british ship and got sick and dies on the ship. mother is terrified and sad mad
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Tim realizes the certainty of Sam's execution and runs out with his late father's bayonet, hoping somehow to stop it.
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Tim resigns himself to attend his brother's public death with the understanding that he cannot save Sam
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mother and tim are sick of the bad memories and move away to wilksberre
